10/13/2008 News For: Ivf Coverage Sc South CarolinaBCBS of SC?s Wiggins Leverages Past Investments for Current Success Elite 8 honoree Stephen K. Wiggins, CIO and EVP at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina, credits several past technology investments, such as those involving parallel computing and code generation, for some recent successes. New law requires parity for mental health coverage Health insurance plans can no longer treat mental illnesses differently than physical problems when it comes to co-payments and coverage limits. FDA clears treatment for depression One in 20 people suffers from depression. Half of those have an intractable type that will not respond to medicine or talking therapy. Dr. Mark George, psychiatry professor and director of the Brain Magnetic Stimulation Laboratory at Medical University of South Carolina, has worked for more than a decade developing a new therapy to help depressed patients who are running out of options. Employer-sponsored coverage drops in Colorado Colorado experienced the second-largest decline in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage in the country in 2006 and 2007, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute EPI, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank. Garcia was beloved police chief for South San district Max Garcia, 53, the firm but popular police chief at South San Antonio School District for the past dozen years, has died of pancreatic cancer. Election '08: McCain, Obama offer contrast on health cost coverage John McCain and Barack Obama would go in opposite directions when it comes to the employer?s role in providing health insurance. N.M. Employer Health Coverage Ranked Worst An Economic Policy Institute report ranks New Mexico worst in the country for the percentage of residents who are covered by health insurance through their employers. Report: Ind. workers losing job-provided coverage INDIANAPOLIS ? A new report provides grist for a health policy political debate Monday: Indiana fares better than most states when it comes to employer-provided health insurance, but the percentage of Hoosiers who are covered is dropping. |

